I am trying to copy some files with spaces and $, @ symbols in their file names in a bash script but the script fails to copy the files stating it cannot find the file. I can see that it is treating ...

I have several folders ("amazon", "niger", "rhine",...). Inside each of them I have several subfolders ("gfdl", "hadgem", "ipsl",...). Each subfolders is composed by 5 subfolders (e.g. in "amazon", ...

csp shows a nice progress bar when copying a file to/from a remote host.
Since cp doesn't have such a nicety, it ocurred to me that I could use scp to copy files in the same machine (no remote host), ...

I have a large tree containing a lot of photos on an external drive that was formatted with one of the linux filesystem types (don't remember which one). It's mounted on my mac and I'm trying to copy ...

I am copying some files from an external drive to my desktop running Ubuntu. I can see the "File Operations" dialog which shows copying process.
How do I find this particular process in ps aux | grep ...

I am simply trying to copy files using cp -r /home/user/source/ /home/user/destination/ but it throws me the cp: cannot stat /source/filename.xxx error for some of the files. When I searched for this ...

I am trying to copy all *file.log files found using find. The problem is all files are named the same and it is only copying over one file. I need to find a way to rename the files in the command or ...

I am trying to use scp command to copy the r0.res file from local machine to a remote machine. I entered the following command:
scp -v /etc/drbd.d/r0.res root@192.168.1.104
and I obtain this error: ...

I am using the command cp error.log error$HOSTNAME.log
the command works properly while running it separately in a server, but if it is run as script which uses ssh I am getting a ? appended to the ...

In my terminal shell, I ssh'ed into a remote server, and I cd to the directory I want. Now in this directory, there is a file called table that I want to copy to my local machine /home/me/Desktop. How ...

I just became really confused by the implementation of bash's cp -R command compared to how POSIX words what should happen
Given the posix definition, I would expect cp -R srcDir existingDestDir to ...

as the answer to this question shows,
Is there a difference between hardlinking with cp -l or ln?
The purpose for creating the -l option for the cp command is to recursively hard-link (the contents ...

I've downloaded a website from the net using the wget command-line tool with
--restrict-file-names=windows so that once the download is complete I could
copy the downloaded files to a mounted Windows ...